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How an eCommerce Wholesaler Freed $3 Million in Inventory in One Week

Challenge: This global eCommerce wholesaler serves 1+ million customers, shipping 46,000 deliveries from 17 warehouses same day as ordered. During the downturn, the supply chain team significantly reduced inventory. Now that the market had turned, they needed to support growth without increasing inventory.

Apparel Company Finds the Perfect Fit in Amber Road

Challenge: A leading designer, distributor, and licensor of high quality apparel, needed to precisely calculate bottom-line shipment costs and compare multiple routing and service options; establish sophisticated audit controls for carrier billing; deliver a quick user friendly system implementation; and seamlessly add new functionality as the company's needs grew.

Leading Semiconductor Producer Streamlines Global Logistics Across 45 Countries

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of semiconductors has recently undergone rapid global expansion, completing eleven acquisitions in only seven years. As a result, company needed an effective global trade management strategy to ensure it maintained efficient, compliant cross-border transactions for moving 17 billion units across 45 countries per year.

Manufacturer Centralizes Procurement to Ensure Trade Compliance, Improve Supplier Coordination

Challenge: As part of an initiative to centralize its global procurement operations, a Fortune 500 diversified manufacturer of engineered components and products needed a way to effectively manage its importing process and reduce procurement costs while enabling real-time collaboration with its global suppliers.

Wine Distributor Achieves High Spirits with Amber Road

Challenge: One of the largest distributors of wine and spirits in the USoperates in a tightly regulated industry with outdated business processes and systems, and was challenged by a lack of visibility to inbound orders from its global vendors and suppliers. In addition, the company's manual order and shipment tracking processes frequently led to significant delays and difficulty in determining accurate inventory levels and expected arrival dates, leading to reactive expediting and additional intra-company transportation moves.

Cost Savings Through FTZ Services

Challenge: Our customer, a large consumer electronics manufacturer, was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in customs and brokerage fees because they were not benefiting from Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) services. Realizing the great savings potential, our customer shared their need for FTZ services with us.

Arkieva Software Implementation Helps Major Chemical Company Manage Recession

Challenge: A significant percentage of what this major chemical company manufactures is used in the automotive industry, and as a result they found demand dropping far below what any previous forecast could have predicted.

End-to-End Solution Cuts Costs, Adds Global Supply Chain Efficiencies

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of cell phone accessories was in a crisis. Issues with an overseas partner completely shut down their supply chain. They needed a provider to quickly step in and get shipments moving.

Streamlining Global Export Compliance in the Cloud

Challenge: A global provider of communications equipment sells test and measurement solutions used in the telecommunications, optical, and wireless industries. Its customers are located globally, including throughout North America, Latin America, South America, Europe, and Asia. As their business expanded and regulatory requirements tightened following 9/11, maintaining export compliance excellence became increasingly time-consuming. Restricted party list compilation and screening, license requirement determination, and end-use screening were manually intensive processes that increased corporate risk of noncompliance and ate into the productivity of order management, compliance, and logistics departments.

How Major Engines/Machinery Manufacturer Used Visibility to Reduce In-Transit Inventory By 15%

Challenge: Previously our client, one of the world's largest engines and machinery manufacturers, spent years trying to build systems and get more information from its service providers, before moving to the cloud with a pay as you go service - lower risk approach with better results.

Custom Modeling Identifies More Than One "Best Case" Scenario for Network Optimization

Challenge: A retailer with 4,400 independently owned and operated stores needed to optimize their distribution network, including 100 inbound source origins, 1.5 billion pounds per year shipped through 14 regional service and six consolidation centers, while maintaining 100 percent delivery within two days.

#1 Leading Chile Department Store Revolutionizes Supply Chain

Challenge: This retailer sought a collaborative supply chain execution platform that would create more cost-effective global logistics processes. The retailer used a single agent, based in Shanghai, who needed visibility into order and supplier milestones, in-transit shipments and trade document status.

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